City of Cairo Selects McLean Engineering

The City of Cairo, Ga., has selected McLean Engineering Company to provide GIS mapping after a positive experience with McLean Engineering’s pole attachment support for its Electric Utility.

As part of their joint use attachment agreement, Cairo was due to conduct a pole attachment count and joint use inventory on its system in the fall of 2013. Cairo selected McLean Engineering to provide this count in an effort to improve relationships with its attachers and improve its maps in the process.

Following the successful conclusion of the pole attachment count, Cairo has selected McLean Engineering’s MapLayers program, a GIS platform built with small utilities in mind. MapLayers’ cloud-based, user-friendly software offers powerful functions for electric utility mapping, joint use attachment counts, as well as other utilities and city departments and mobile accessibility. Most importantly, this approach is low-cost and flexible, which allows Cairo to maintain flexibility and control of its data and makes it easy to afford the cost of keeping maps up-to-date – the most essential function of any map.

About McLean EngineeringEstablished in 1936, McLean Engineering is approaching 80 years of experience in the power engineering field, serving electric utility systems throughout the United States. McLean Engineering has an unparalleled reputation for providing safe, reliable and durable design solutions by focusing on long-term relationships with their clients.

McLean Engineering provides design, engineering, inspection, and energy solutions, and is a nationally-recognized expert in the area of pole attachments, having presented to national audiences on the topic at numerous industry conferences and webinars and consulted for electric utilities across the US on pole attachment issues. To find out more, please visit our blog at mcleanengineering.com/blog.

McLean Engineering is the exclusive engineering partner of the Electric Cities of Georgia (ECG). For more information on the Expanded Engineering service offering provide by McLean and ECG, please click here.

About the City of CairoCairo, incorporated in 1870, is located in Grady County in southwest Georgia. Pronounced "Cayroe," the city has been the county seat since 1906 and has 9,607 residents (2010 census). The town covers 9.37 square miles and is governed by a five-member city council, mayor, and an appointed city manager. For decades Cairo was known as the heart of Georgia's syrup industry. The city hosts several festivals, the most famous of which is the Great Southern Antique Car Rally, for which Cairo earned its nickname as Georgia's Hospitality City.